What is WavePlayer?

WavePlayer is a fully customizable, responsive HTML5 audio plugin for WordPress. Its interface is built around the waveform of the audio file that is playing back.

With WavePlayer you are free to host your own tracks, breaking the limitations imposed by most of the free music cloud services available on the market, but without renouncing to a cool, modern player that you can customize to best match the look of your website.

full integration with the Media Manager and visual creation of playlists

full integration with WooCommerce, including batch creation of products from tracks and albums

peak files for an instantaneous access to the audio waveforms

What is new in WavePlayer 2.1.0

WavePlayer has been accurately rewritten to make it faster, more efficient and to incorporate all the features requested by customers during the past year.

PLAYLIST PANEL – WavePlayer finally features a visible list of all the tracks included in a single instance. The site administrator can easily configure the info and buttons shown on each row of the list.

PEAK FILES – Audio tracks get analyzed as soon as they are uploaded to the Media Library. This way you do not have to wait for the waveform to be rendered when using a track for the first time, which is particularly useful for extremely large files. Moreover, a fully renovated Maintenance section allows you to Manage peak files more easily.

FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT – All player instances in a single page are loaded simultaneously, reducing enormously the loading time and making the interaction with the server much faster and more efficient. For example, if you have 10 instances on a page, the older versions of WavePlayer sent 10 calls to the server, getting the playlist of each instance at a time. WavePlayer 2.1 analyzes the current page and send to the server a single request for all the instances on the page. This makes the interaction with the server more efficient and reduces the loading time enormously. Starting from verion 2.1, only one Audio Element per page is created, making the loading times even faster and the memory management more efficient.

CUSTOMIZATION – WavePlayer is very appreciated by its customers for its incredible customization capabilities. With the new version 2, the possibilities go even further. With the introduction of the new playlist panel, you can now customize the information shown on both the Info Bar and the playlist rows. The number of placeholders you can now use to customize the info shown has expanded. The webmaster can now customize both the Info Bar and the playlist adding buttons and stats for the most common utilities, including likes, social shares, download, play counts and runtime. The system is easy and flexible, allowing you to customize what to show.

WOOCOMMERCE INTEGRATION – Integration with WooCommerce has been extended to support all types of products. The integration aims to automate as much as possible the creation process for music products, such as music singles or music albums. The new features include: the creation of a product meta value that stores the music type of the product (single or album); the creation of a product meta value that stores the location of the preview files for a single or an album; the automatic insertion of the player, based on the preview files, in both the Shop and Product pages; the optional replacement of the product image with the featured image connected to the preview file; a double batch process that automates the creation of products for singles and albums.

Changelog

2.1.4
* BUGFIX: WavePlayer triggers an error while trying to generate waveforms for newly uploaded tracks
2.1.3
* BUGFIX: Social buttons broken with update to version 2.1.0
2.1.2
* BUGFIX: The cart button did not work properly starting from version 2.1.0
2.1.1
* NEW: WavePlayer can now correctly calculate the width of the waveform area even when the player instance is inside an hidden element
* CHANGE: Because of the previous feature, the 'AJAX Containers' option was permanently removed
2.1.0
* NEW: WavePlayer now supports all types of products in WooCommerce
* CHANGE: In order to support all types of product in WooCommerce, the Preview Files are now in the "Advanced", instead of the "General" section
* NEW: The product batch creation tool is now extended to all types of products
* NEW: Completely redesigned audio engine: using only one audio element per page, loading times and memory management are more efficient, fast and optimized
* FIX: Minor fixes to the aspect of the player
2.0.15
* NEW: Nearly seamless loop playback when using one track per instance and repeat is active
* BUGFIX: PHP Warning when overriding a playlist shortcode
2.0.14
* NEW: Better integration with WooCommerce new gallery feature
* FIX: Play count now increases when only 10% of a track gets played
* FIX: Default thumbnail did not show up for any product using the new WooCommerce 3.0.0 and above
2.0.12
* NEW: WavePlayer now detects the visibility status of elements to automatically refresh the content of the waveform. This is particularly useful when including WavePlayer instances into dynamically toggable elements.
* BUGFIX: Clicking on a playlist item in scenario with multiple playlists on a single page always starts the first track of the last instance.
2.0.11
* NEW: Placeholders now include 'attributes' in the form %key{"attribute":value}%, for future template developments
* BUGFIX: Player size on WooCommerce Shop page did not correspond to settings
* BUGFIX: Social share links are populated with an incorrect URL
* BUGFIX: Default thumbnail doesn't show in the playlist
* BUGFIX: Under WooCommerce integration panel, a query assumes the posts table name is "wp_posts"
2.0.10
* NEW: Added a "limit" parameter to the shortcode, so you can get only the first n result in combination with the "music_genre" parameter
* FIX: WooCommerce 3.0 deprecated the Download Type option. This made WavePlayer's integration malfunctioning.
* BUGFIX: On iOS devices, playback does not start when clicking on a playlist row
2.0.9
* BUGFIX: Missing info and cover art for remote files.
2.0.8
* NEW: When the playlist is scrollable, jumping to a track makes the corresponding item in the list visible.
2.0.7
* BUGFIX: The option "Jump to the next player" does not stay checked saving the settings.
2.0.6
* BUGFIX: Downloads counter does not get updated
2.0.5
* NEW: WavePlayer now overrides both audio and playlist shortcodes
* BUGFIX: Install fails on WordPress versions older than 4.5
2.0.4
* NEW: WavePlayer now supports auto update from the Plugins page
* BUGFIX: Players on WooCommerce product pages always show in large size
2.0.3
* BUGFIX: Players on WooCommerce product pages always show in large size
2.0.2
* NEW: Added a track sharer for LinkedIn
* BUGFIX: Peak files for new external files don't get generated
2.0.1
* BUGFIX: Player does not load on website where WooCommerce is not installed or active
* BUGFIX: Players don't show the spinning icon when page is loading
* BUGFIX: On WooCommerce Shop Page, the first item never gets listed
* BUGFIX: When batch creating WooCommerce products, progress bar doesn't work properly
2.0.0
* NEW: A new customizable Playlist Panel. The webmaster can configure the info and buttons displayed on each row
* NEW: WooCommerce integration. Preview files and Music Type (singles or albums) for simple, virtual, music, downloadable products.
* NEW: WooCommerce integration. Plenty of options to automatically integrate the player in your music products.
* NEW: WooCommerce integration. The webmaster can now create products based on audio files using a batch process. It is also possible to add a cart button on both the Info Bar and the Playlist Panel that interact with WooCommerce cart through AJAX.
* NEW: Peak files now get generated upon uploading of new audio files.
* NEW: Loading time have been reduced enormously. WavePlayer now loads all the instances on one page with a single AJAX call to the server. This allows all the instances to load simultaneously.
* NEW: New placeholders to insert info and buttons (like, share, cart, statistics) in both the Info Bar and the Playlist Panel
* NEW: Plugin's options don't get removed from the database when removing the plugin. This is particularly useful when updating to a new version of the plugin without losing your favorite settings.
* NEW: Managing peak files from the Maintenance tab of the Settings page is now easier and more advanced.
* NEW: Thumbnails for audio files in the Media Library can now show the title of a track instead of the file.
* NEW: A new method "refresh" that allows you to force the redraw of the waveform and is particularly useful when loading or showing content via javascript
* NEW: Current position and total length of the current track are now shown on the waveform
* FIX: Minor CSS improvements
1.4.2
* BUGFIX: Info Bar broken when inserting the %file% placeholder.
* BUGFIX: Mouse hovering the waveform did not produce the right effect.
1.4.1
* BUGFIX: Playback is not available until all instances in the page completed loading
1.4.0
* NEW: Thanks to a completely rewritten AJAX call strategy, instance loading is now twice as fast as before.
* NEW: In case of multiple instances in one page, the instances load in the order they appear on the page (from top to bottom).
* NEW: It is now possible to choose whether WavePlayer override the audio shortcode or not
* NEW: WavePlayer is now fully compatible with Internet Explorer 11. The compatibility with Internet Explorer 9 and 10 will be improved soon.
* BUGFIX: The audio shortcode did not look correctly in the Post Editor and it was not possible to edit its content
1.3.4
* NEW: When automatically replacing an audio shortcode, WavePlayer now tries to verify if the URL provided actually corresponds to an attachment in the Media Library. If it does, WavePlayer uses the attachment ID instead of its URL
* BUGFIX: Automatic replacement of audio shortcodes does not work if the src attribute is not provided
1.3.3
* BUGFIX: Automatic replacement of audio shortcodes does not work if the src attribute is not provided
1.3.2
* NEW: The Info Bar automatically hides if one of the placeholders used in the template does not get replaced by any data value
* NEW: A spinning icon shows the loading status of the player. This is particularly useful when loading a file for the first time or from a remote location.
* BUGFIX: Getting peaks for remote audio files generates cross domain XHR error
1.3.1
* BUGFIX: Track's title not displaying properly when original audio file does not have the corresponding ID3 tag
1.3.0
* NEW: Introducing a new taxonomy 'Music Genre' for attachments
* NEW: Create a player that will automatically include all audio files pertaining to one or more 'Music Genre'
* NEW: Create an instance simply providing the URL of an external audio file: WavePlayer will retrieve all the info stored in the ID3 tags, including a cover art picture if available, and make a local copy for a faster future access (only the ID3 tags and the cover art will be stored locally, not the audio file).
* FIX: Color Pickers now work also in the Media Manager, not only in the WavePlayer Settings page
* FIX: Minor interface improvements
1.2.2
* BUGFIX: Default settings not applying correctly to the shortcode when editing its properties in the Media Manager
* BUGFIX: 'autoplay' not working properly in combination with 'repeat_all'
* FIX: A recent Chrome update changed some CSS default behaviors that messed up with the aspect of the player controls
* FIX: Minor improvements to the styling of the player controls
1.2.1
* BUGFIX: WavePlayer preview does not show properly in the post editor on some WordPress multisite installations
1.2.0
* NEW: Multisite support. WavePlayer is now fully compatible with any WordPress Multisite installation
* FIX: Graphic improvements in Safari
1.1.2
* NEW: Added a volume control
* NEW: Added a button to toggle the visibility of the title bar
* BUGFIX: "No container found" error in javascript of the admin area
* BUGFIX: the "NEXT" skip button disappears on last track even with repeat_all activated if the playlist only contains two tracks
v1.0.18
* First release